Group 5 Presents: AUDRE LORDE.

Group 5 is proud to introduce Audre Lorde to our class. Lorde is described as,“Black, feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, and warrior.

A native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants, her her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples and of organizing in coalition across differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, age and ability. 

An internationally recognized activist and artist, Audre Lorde was the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit, which conferred the mantle of New York State poet for 1991-93. In designating her New York State’s Poet Laureate, Governor Mario Cuomo observed: “Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere.” 

(excerpt from the website called The Audre Lorde Project.)

A link to our presentation can be viewed here, or click on the below link:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m6OJhR0oYRtFY9s1Dnxrk85drEAMM-YOoFpy2tXCLD8/edit?usp=sharing

Please note: Our presentation includes hyperlinks to references and additional reading material, including a wonderful audio recording by our very own Patrick Diaz, who reads the poem entitled, "Power" by Audre Lorde. We hope you enjoy it. 

From your classmates, 
Caroline, Ben, Patrick, Tamsin, Karina, Sarah, and Cara